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  • adjective economics Moving independent of the overall state of an economy.

Etymologies

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From a- +‎ cyclical.

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Examples

  • In short, if Moffatt's admittedly preliminary inspection of the data is correct, creative destruction is roughly constant - or "acyclical" - over the business cycle.

    Acyclical Creative Destruction, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • We then played a capture game on a board similar to Checkers, but with cyclical and acyclical moving patterns.

    Day 1 of the Board Game Studies 2009 Colloquium 2009

  • We then played a capture game on a board similar to Checkers, but with cyclical and acyclical moving patterns.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • CB is a choice function (i.e. satisfies the defining criteria for a choice function given in section 3.1) if and only if is complete and acyclical.

    Preferences Hansson, Sven Ove 2006

  • And then on the debt side, it's been a particularly attractive time for us because we started buying the debt back at the end of 2008 when debt in general was at a great discount, even though the companies that we invested in were quite acyclical and stable.

    unknown title 2011

  • We specialize in acyclical, economically defensive industries - industry sectors that do well whether the economy is strong or weak.

    unknown title 2011

  • Graph databases can allow more flexible, rapid styles of development with their cyclical or acyclical data structures.

    Hottest News Articles 2010

  • High-end Hooker: Her position is strongest and her assets are acyclical.

    FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES 2008

  • We've always felt that we are relatively acyclical but at some level you have to have -- for a working adult student, particularly at the undergraduate level making about $25,000, $30,000 a year, making the decision to commit not so much the dollars but the time necessary to get a undergraduate degree, it's certainly helped by economic uncertainty but it has to be balanced by a sense of faith that there's value at the other end of that, so there's some amount of that.

    unknown title 2011

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